Rethinking Community through Transdisciplinary Research

This book offers the first interdisciplinary survey of community research in the humanities and social sciences to consider such diverse disciplines as philosophy, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, disabilities studies, linguistics, communication studies, and film studies. Bringing together leading international experts, the collection of essays critically maps and explores the state of the art in community research, while also developing future perspectives for a cross-disciplinary rethinking of community. Pursuing such a critical, transdisciplinary approach to community, the book argues, can counteract reductive appropriations of the term 'community' and, instead, pave the way for a novel assessment of the concept's complexity. Since community is, above all, a lived practice that shapes people's everyday lives, the essays also suggest ways of redoing community; they discuss concrete examples of community practice, thereby bridging the gap between scholars and activists working in the field.

Autorentext
Bettina Jansen, Ph.D., is a research assistant and lecturer at the Department of English Literature, TU Dresden, Germany. She is the author of Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and has published several articles on literary negotiations of community in black British short fiction in academic journals and essay collections. Bettina is also the co-editor of the first German-language handbook on masculinity studies, Männlichkeit: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch (2016, with Stefan Horlacher and Wieland Schwanebeck).

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. What Is Community.- Chapter 2. Rethinking Sociological Perspectives on Community and Commonality: Contours of Micro-Sociological Community Research.- Chapter 3. Rethinking Anthropological Perspectives on Community: Watchful Indifference and Joint Commitment.- Chapter 4. Diversity in Community: Rethinking Psychological Perspectives on Bridging Differences.- Chapter 5. Rethinking Philosophical Perspectives on Community: Prepositional Community.- Part II. The Digital Age and Communities in Flux.- Chapter 6. Rethinking Community in Communication and Information Studies: Digital Community and Community 'To Go'.- Chapter 7. Rethinking Community in Linguistics: Language and Community in the Digital Age.- Chapter 8. Rethinking Community in Migration Studies: Lessons from Transnational Families for Rethinking the Relationship of 'Community' and 'Society'.- Part III. Community between Social Empowerment and Exploitation.- Chapter 9. Rethinking Community in Disability Studies: Chosen and Ascribed Communities or Intersecting Communities and Communities in Conflict.- Chapter 10. Rethinking Community in Ageing Studies: The Rise of Community Capitalism in Times of Demographic Change.- Part IV. Community in the Arts.- Chapter 11. Rethinking Community in Literature and Literary Studies: The Secret Communal Life of Toni Morrison's Paradise.- Chapter 12. Image-Space and Space of Experience: Rethinking Community in the Cinema.- Chapter 13. Rethinking Community in Community Music: The Call, the Welcome, and the 'Yes'.- Chapter 14. Promoting the 'Peaceable Garden Culture of Religion': The Challenges of Growing Inclusive and Just Community from the Perspective of Theology and Religious Studies.- Chapter 15. Rethinking Community in a Sport for Development and Peace Context.- Chapter 16. 'A New We: Post-Individualistic Community-Based Initiatives as Social Innovations? Empirical Observations in Intentional Communities.